And John's disciples and those of the Pharisees were fasting. And they come and say to him, Why do John's disciples and those of the Pharisees fast, but the disciples with you do not fast?

And after John's messengers departed, he began to say to the multitudes about John, What did ye go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

Therefore a debate developed from John's disciples with the Jews about purification.

And he said to them, Into what then were ye immersed? And they said, Into John's immersion.